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‘The longest and most charming love letter in literature’, playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf’s close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth’s England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.

Here we go again talking about a classic which didn’t work for me. Even thou 99% of the classic books I read don’t work me, I sometimes stumble across amazing books as “The Great Gatsby”. But this book is very far from that in my opinion.

Even thou I didn’t have a lot of exceptions for this book, I still managed some how to get disappointed in this book. I hear a lot of both good and bad about this book. And after having reading this one I can honestly say that it is truly bad in my opinion. 

The copy I got of this book has 298 pages, and all of these pages were descriptions of things that were happening and doing so the author of this book forgot about the plot. 

The plot in this book is almost none existing, I write this book 2 days after finishing this book and I can fully say that I don’t know what this book was about because the amount of descriptions in this book over rule the plot in this book.

However the writing style in this book was very very good which truly made me happy because it was the only good thing about this book in my opinion.

When it comes to the characters in this book, I can tell you that they are very flat, boring and you wont remember them after finishing this book. Even during reading this book I couldn’t name even one character that was in this book.

A lot of people on the internet call this book “the longest and most charming love-letter in literature”, but if I received a love letter like this, I would beat the shit of the person who wrote that letter to me. Because it was so awful and it didn’t make any sense to me.

This book was my first book written by Virginia Wolf, and if the rest of her work are like this one, I wont continue my adventure with her work. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he feels dissatisfied when he learns of the grand fortunes of his relatives. He decides to go on a quest for more land, only to find that with each new acquisition new problems develop… How Much Land Does A Man Need? gives a delightful insight into old Russian values

This book is a very quick read. My copy of this book has only 55 pages which means that it can be read in a hour or so.

The plot here was very weak in my opinion. Because it is very short and all the plot talks about is human greed. And how some people just want more and more in society which is true. But the way it was portrayed really makes me not like this book a lot.

The perspective here didn’t feel like something written by Tolstoy but rather it felt like something written by a new author trying to poorly write as Tolstoy.

If you never read anything written by Tolstoy then this book isn’t the place to begin the journey with him. Because this book has to be the weakest book written by him ive read so far.

I can’t say a lot about the characters in this book, because we don’t get to know them a lot in only 55 or so pages.

The writing style in this book was very weak in my opinion and well there isn’t much I can say about the writing style because we get so few pages. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen’s most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.

This book is yet again another classic which didn’t work for me personally. But yes I still read classics even thou 80% of them aren’t for me and this book is one of them.

The first 100 page of this book is Emma looking down at people who have lower living standards than her. A good example of this will be the following quote from early in this book “Oh, my dear, that’s good because I would have to knock you flat on your arse if you were considering someone of such low birth.”

Emma is the main character of this book of course. And she has every requirement of a character which I personally hate the most. Emma is annoying, she meddles in things which clearly isn’t her business, she is very immature, a huge snob and her mistakes is never her fault but someone else’s. 

The rest of the character here was so boring and uninteresting that I can’t even tell you any of their names. 

The plot in this book is about a rich and very snobbish girl who looks down and trash talk people who have less money than her. And her only hobby is to matchmaking for people she doesn’t know at all. And the consequences of her hobby is not her fault but rather the people’s she involve in her awful hobby.

The writings style was probably the best thing about this book. It gives us the amazing mood and it is very easy to read even with the old English.

To be fully honest here this book is way too long. The length of my copy of this book is 480 pages, which is way too long. Because this book is very doll, boring and uninteresting.

Even thou I finished this book there were so many times I wanted to just stop reading, or fall asleep while reading this book. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5